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Media representation Flashcards

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Hall ethnicity

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Blacks and asians have dark charechteristics - cause of socail problems

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Hall ethnicity

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Deviance \ lawbreakers - their lives revolve around crimes
Posing a threat on society through non British values
The cause of social problems - eg 2011 riots - economic strain taking up welfare benefits

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Beattie et al and malik - ethlicity entertainment

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Blacks more likely to be athletes / rappers than proffesionals

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Islamophobia - ethnicity

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A lot more after 9/11 and 2005 bombings
Mayor of London 2007 report 91% of reports on muslims were negative

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Ownership and control ethnicity

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Agebda setting and clickbait : eg stephen lawrence murder

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Shiller globalization - ethnicity

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Cultural imperialism reproduces views such as Eastern european being terrorists or villains ; rocky

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Evaluation of Shiller

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Assumes non westerners are passive

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Evaluation Hall et al

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Ethnocentric bias, disreagrds progress made

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Evaluation ethnicity

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Disregards other influences of the social structure- focuses on interactions

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Chandler age

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Talks about pester power making kids a target audience

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How are kids presented 7 ways

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Little devils, accessories, kids as victims, nostalgia of being a kid, little angels

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AGe -Cohen adolecents

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moral panics around youth - theyre a scapegoat and have little power so easily targetted

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Old age

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in US - 1.5% of old people old- often seen as not able to take care of themself- either invisible or negative - strain economically

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Tom Shakespeare - disability

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1st hand experience - believes they are made disabled by media reps and society - known as disabilism
Used as cheap laughs in tv - lazy scripwriting

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Barnes disability

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Also 1st hand experience - identifies repetitive stereortypes
pitable / pathetic
Sinister and evil in tv - james bond villains
sexually abnormal
not productive members of society
super cripple - only reported doing something unexpected

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Roper disability

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Cute for fundraising events

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Pluralists disabilities

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Low rep, untrue stereotypes

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Disability evaluation

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More woke society
Seen as heroic when they do something unexpected

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metrosexual

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Men who embrace their feminime side

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Hetrosexuality - sex

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Highlights women bodies for views - mulvey male gaze

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Mcrobbie sex

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Men are now judged physichally similarly to women

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Gross - media today sex

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Sexual anhilation of gays due to low representation in media

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Cowan sex

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1/5 people think media is responsible for negative stereotypes

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Pluralists sex

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Media is no longer done through male gaze

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Pink pound

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Market specifically aimed at gay people

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What was support for Ellen and George Micheal coming out

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Ellen 1997 - positive
George 1998 - negative
Lil NAS x - negative 2019- rapper

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Working class

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Genrally underrepresented - typically stereotyped as lazy, unconformative - promote meritocracy

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Curren and Seaton - class

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Wc little interest in public affairs
More interested in sports and celebrities

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Jones class

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Wc is romanticised - often seen as community coming together

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Why is Eastenders controversial

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one of Largest wc representative in uk media- written by mc

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Evaluation of wc

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Marxists - done to maintain inequalities
Pluralists - different perspectives in media

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Weltman - class

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Term chav is a stereotype and technique the media use to discredit wc cultures

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Middle class

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Over represented .
life shown positively promoting meritocracy eg modern family

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Marxists mc evaluation

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Reps erve to legitimise ineqALITIES

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Pluralist mc evaluation

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media dontcare about mc - only want profits

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MC evaluations

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over represented - form of cultural imperialism promoting western society
Often played as white hetrosexuals

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nEWman upper class

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Media pay too much attention on expensive goods while portraying them.
they are often portrayed as handsome and polite

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Evaluation on upper class

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Neo - marxists see it as celebrating the wealthy - legitimising inequalities
Pluralists - they are presented how people want to see them

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